Baoding, a city of 9 million in China’s northern Hebei province, made internet site Weibo’s hot search chart this month. The viral hashtag: BaodingOutbreak Here is our FactCheck:
, Hu Xijin, former editor-in-chief of Global Times, the Communist Party controlled newspaper, said he had interviewed three people from Baoding, all of whom reported that they and/or their family had recently had fevers.“After interviewing these three families, my first impression is that there are still many having fevers in Baoding, but many infected people only take antigen tests at home and do not get a diagnosis, or they do not report at all.
Li Meng told Dingduan News on December 5 that three of her four family members had experienced COVID symptoms, and that their antigen tests were “abnormal.” They reported their cases to the community authority and were told to just stay home and take medicine for a common cold to ease symptoms, the report said.
“It is exactly because of the absence of mass PCR testing, most positive cases are not in the official tally.”Baoding residents who had posted their detailed “COVID diaries” on Weibo. Qiqi and Xuan said that everyone in their families had fevers and most of them self-tested positive. They all stayed home to recover.
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